[Massachusetts-NFB] September Events for All

[Steve Cook]

Hi All, 

 

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Everyone is invited to the below events! 

 

Friday, September 1, 2023

Smokey and the Bandit audio described movie 8:00 PM eastern

 

Friday, September 8, 2023

JAWS audio described movie 8:00 PM eastern

 

Saturday, September 16, 2023

OrCam 3 Technology Presentation 11:00 AM Eastern

 

Friday, September 22, 2023

Trivia night at 8:00 PM Eastern To register contact David Bundy at
bundy at pobox.com <mailto:bundy at pobox.com> 

 

Please read more below the Zoom information about the movies! 

 


NFB of SC Zoom


 

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Meeting ID: 803 254 3777

Passcode: 124578

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Smokey and the Bandit


 

Wealthy Texan Big Enos Burdette and his son Little Enos have sponsored a
racer in Atlanta's Southern Classic and want to celebrate in style when he
wins, so they are seeking a trucker willing to bootleg Coors Beer to Atlanta
for their refreshment. They find local legend Bo "Bandit" Darville at a
truck rodeo at Lakewood Fairgrounds and offer him $80,000 to haul 400 cases
of Coors from Texarkana (the closest place it could be legally sold at that
time) to Atlanta in 28 hours. The Bandit takes the bet on the risky and
unprecedented task, and recruits his friend Cledus "Snowman" Snow to drive
the truck, while Bandit drives a black Pontiac Trans Am as a "blocker" to
divert attention away from the truck and its illegal cargo.

 

The pair arrive in Texarkana one hour early and load up the truck, but just
as they head back, Carrie, a runaway bride, intercepts Bandit and jumps in
his car, unwittingly making him an indirect target of Sheriff Buford T.
Justice, a career Texas lawman whose witless son Junior was to have married
Carrie. Buford, with Junior along, engages in a high-speed pursuit and
doggedly chases Bandit all the way to Georgia to retrieve Carrie and arrest
the Bandit, while various comical mishaps cause his cruiser to disintegrate
on the way.

 

Bandit attracts more police attention across Dixie as Snowman barrels on
toward Atlanta with the contraband beer, but they are helped en route by
many colorful characters via CB radio. Neither Buford nor any other lawmen
know of Snowman's illegal manifest, while Bandit is likewise unaware that
Buford is chasing him because of Carrie, whose jumpiness inspires Bandit to
give her the CB handle "Frog".

 

Just after re-entering Georgia, Snowman is rescued by Bandit after being
stopped by a Georgia State Patrol motorcycle trooper, as state and local
police intensely pursue Bandit with roadblocks and a helicopter to track his
movement. With four miles left, Bandit, discouraged by the unexpected
mounting attention, is ready to give up, but Snowman, who initially thought
they would fail, takes the lead and smashes through the roadblock at the
fairgrounds' main entrance. They arrive with ten minutes to spare, but
instead of taking the payoff, Carrie and Bandit accept a double-or-nothing
offer from Little Enos: a challenge to run up to Boston and bring back clam
chowder in 18 hours. They quickly escape in one of Big Enos's 13 Cadillacs
as police flood the racetrack.

 

After passing Buford's badly damaged cruiser on the roadside, Bandit gets on
the CB and initially directs him to the Burdettes, but then respectfully
gives his real location right behind Buford, who continues his chase leaving
Junior behind, and with more parts falling off his cruiser as he limps off
after Bandit.

 

Cast

Burt Reynolds as Bo "The Bandit" Darville

Sally Field as Carrie "Frog"

Jerry Reed as Cledus "The Snowman" Snow

Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice / "Smokey Bear"

Mike Henry as Junior Justice

Pat McCormick as Enos "Big Enos" Burdette

Paul Williams as Enos "Little Enos" Burdette

Macon McCalman as Mr. B

Susan McIver as "Hot Pants" Hillyard

George Reynolds as Sheriff George Branford

Laura Lizer Sommers as "Little Beaver"

Michael Mann as Branford's Deputy

Lamar Jackson as "Sugar Bear"

Ronnie Gay as Georgia Trooper

Quinnon Sheffield as Alabama Trooper

Alfie Wise as Alabama Patrolman

Pat Hustis as Tow Truck Driver

Ingeborg Kjeldsen as Foxy Lady

Michael McManus as Trucker "Silver Tongued Devil"

Gene Witham as Leader of The Gang

Susan Sindelar as Motorcycle Gang Member

Ben Jones as Trucker #1

Joe Klecko as Trucker #2

Hank Worden as Trucker #3

Sonny Shroyer as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

 


JAWS


 

In the New England beach town of Amity Island, a young woman goes for a
late-night ocean swim during a beach party. An unseen force attacks and
pulls her underwater. Her remains are found washed up on the beach the next
morning. After the medical examiner concludes it was a shark attack, newly
hired police chief Martin Brody closes the beaches; Mayor Larry Vaughn
persuades him to reconsider, fearing the town's summer economy will suffer.
The coroner, apparently under pressure, now concurs with the mayor's theory
that it was a boating accident. Brody reluctantly accepts their conclusion
until a young boy, Alex Kintner, is killed at a crowded beach. A bounty is
placed on the shark, causing an amateur shark-hunting frenzy. Quint, an
eccentric and roughened local shark hunter, offers his services for $10,000.
Consulting oceanographer Matt Hooper examines the girl's remains, confirming
that an abnormally large shark killed her.

 

When local fishermen catch a tiger shark, the mayor declares the beaches
safe. Mrs. Kintner confronts Brody and blames him for her son's death. A
skeptical Hooper dissects the tiger shark and, finding no human remains
inside its stomach, determines a larger shark killed the victims. While
searching the night waters in Hooper's boat, Hooper and Brody find the
half-sunken vessel of Ben Gardner, a local fisherman. Underwater, Hooper
removes a sizable shark tooth from the boat's hull, but accidentally drops
it after discovering Gardner's severed head. Vaughn dismisses Brody and
Hooper's assertions that a huge great white shark caused the deaths, and
refuses to close the beaches, allowing only increased safety precautions. On
the Fourth of July weekend, tourists pack the beaches. The shark enters a
nearby lagoon, killing a boater. Brody then convinces a guilt-ridden Vaughn
to hire Quint.

 

Despite tension between Quint and Hooper, they set out with Brody on Quint's
boat to hunt the shark. As Brody lays down a chum line, the shark suddenly
appears behind the boat. Quint, estimating it is 25 feet (7.6 m) long and
weighs 3 tonnes (3.0 long tons; 3.3 short tons), harpoons it with a line
attached to a flotation barrel, but the shark pulls the barrel underwater
and disappears.

 

At nightfall, Quint and Hooper drunkenly exchange stories about their
assorted body scars. One of Quint's is a removed tattoo, and he reveals that
he survived the attack on the USS Indianapolis. The shark returns, ramming
the boat's hull and disabling the power. The men work through the night,
repairing the engine. In the morning, Brody attempts to call the Coast
Guard, but Quint, obsessed with killing the shark without outside
assistance, smashes the radio. After a long chase, Quint harpoons the shark
with another barrel. The line is tied to the stern cleats, but the shark
drags the boat backward, swamping the deck and flooding the engine
compartment. Quint prepares to sever the line to save the transom, but the
cleats break off, keeping the barrels attached to the shark. To Brody's
relief, Quint heads toward shore to draw the shark into shallower waters,
but the overtaxed engine fails.

 

As the boat slowly sinks, the trio attempts a riskier approach. Hooper suits
up and enters the water in a shark-proof cage, intending to lethally inject
the shark with strychnine via a hypodermic spear. The shark attacks the
cage, causing Hooper to drop the spear. While the shark trashes the cage,
Hooper escapes to the seabed. The shark leaps onto the boat, subsequently
devouring Quint. Trapped on the sinking vessel, Brody shoves a scuba tank
into the shark's mouth and, climbing onto the crow's nest, shoots the tank
with a rifle. The resulting explosion kills the shark. Hooper resurfaces and
he and Brody paddle back to Amity Island, clinging to the remaining barrels.

 

Steve Cook

The NFB of SC now has our own podcast and we hope you will take a listen!
Using your favorite podcast platform, search for "National Federation of the
Blind of South Carolina" and enjoy! If you have any suggestions for our
podcast, please send them to Steve Cook at cookcafe at sc.rr.com
<mailto:cookcafe at sc.rr.com> . 

 

 

 

 

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